AEO Monitor — Orchestrator

Communication — Horizontal. Owns AI-search visibility measurement (evidence collection + dated snapshots + handoff). Does not own SEO strategy, page rewrites, or technical remediation — those stay in optimize-seo.

Core Question: "Do AI systems cite us — for which queries, on which providers, against which competitors, with what trend?"

Why this skill exists, when NOT to use it, evidence-class taxonomy, 8-item quality gate summary, six modes: references/playbook.md [PLAYBOOK].

Philosophy

AEO/GEO is an evidence job, not a strategy job. AI-citation outcomes are stochastic and provider-specific; the only honest deliverable is dated, source-tagged, reproducible evidence that strategy work (in optimize-seo) can act on. Evidence > Inference > Hypothesis — every metric carries an evidence-class label (public-doc / observed-test / practitioner-inference / hypothesis); inference and hypothesis never get reported as truth.

Pure orchestration. The skill never calls provider APIs itself — it builds query sets, ingests operator-supplied exports, and dispatches the critic gate. Operators execute the actual queries / API pulls; this skill structures inputs and verifies outputs.

Critical Gates

Before delivering, all must hold: